step out the side door, into the swirling wind that pickpockets my breath.
“Time is like that. Especially when you’re young. It can fix a lot of things, and what it doesn’t fix, you forget, or at least push back and only bring out at certain times, which is what I did, now and then, late at night, just before sleep claimed me.”
― The Bottoms
― The Bottoms
“We arrived only yesterday and already the cold sea air has seeped into my bones and softened the pages on which I now write.”
― The Fervor
― The Fervor
“Blackness ate inward from the corners of my vision. Reality crumpled and bloomed like a cigarette burn on a movie screen. The hole let into an alternate universe, where the scene unfolded bloodily.”
― Black Mountain
― Black Mountain
“Surf crashed against my consciousness with each heartbeat. Another incipient migraine.”
― Black Mountain
― Black Mountain
“All it takes now for us to know all the gory details about some murder is for it to be horrible, or it to be a slow news week, and it’s everywhere, even if it’s some grocery clerk murder in Maine that hasn’t a thing to do with us.”
― The Bottoms
― The Bottoms
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